Volume 49 · 1141
Public Law 74–80
To authorize the conveyance by the United States to the State of Michigan of the former United States lighthouse supply depot, Saint Joseph, Michigan, for State naval force purposes.
Approved February 25, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the conveyance by the United States to the State of Michigan of the former United States lighthouse supply depot, Saint Joseph, Michigan, for State naval force purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Saint Joseph, Mich.
Conveyance of land to State, authorized.
of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to convey to the State of Michigan for State naval force purposes all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a tract of land containing one and seven hundred and twenty-four one-thousandths acres, more or less, situated in section 23, township 4 south, range 19 west, in the county of Berrien, State of Michigan, formerly embraced within the United States lighthouse supply depot at Saint Joseph, Michigan, and transferred to the control and jurisdiction of the Navy Department for naval purposes by the Act of Congress
Vol. 40, p. 719.
Reversionary provision.
approved July 1, 1918 (40 Stat. 704, 719). Such conveyance shall contain the express condition that if said State of Michigan shall at any time cease to use such tract of land for State naval force purposes or shall alienate or attempt to alienate such tract, title thereto shall revert to the United States, and the deed or instrument of conveyance shall recite the reversionary right herein reserved.
Approved, February 25, 1936.